Advanced Somatic Resolution Skills for Perinatal Trauma

Location: Mason Hall, Bozeman, MT
Recorded: November 11-14, 2022

Four days of lectures, presentations, and handouts

About the Videos

​​The workshop was held over four days in November 2022. There are 28 videos available (broken up into smaller 10-18 minute segments) covering all four days of the workshop. The slides presented live have been added to the videos, and the handouts are also available to follow along with. The breakout small group sessions were not recorded, but each is described for you to try on your own if you wish.

NOTE:

• This course does not include continuing education credits
• Purchase and access are provided through ppncenter.com

About the Course

Somatic trauma resolution practitioners are ideally trained to specialize in helping to prevent and heal birth trauma. Healing from these early imprints can be a game changer for healthy human development. In this workshop you will learn advanced somatic resolution skills for treating perinatal trauma. Treating birth trauma is more complex than shock trauma; it often brings up earlier and developmental traumas. It involves many people: the birthing parent, other parent or partner, the baby, and the birthing staff.

This workshop applies quintessential somatic skills to healing birth trauma:

• Medicalized Birth Trauma

• The Shock of Witnessing

• Working with a Birthing Timeline (single episode) in relationship to the body

• Restoring Primitive Survival Responses to Overwhelming Situations

• Attack and Assault

• Near Death

• Injury and Recovery

• Repairing Relationship to Essential Self, Supportive Other, and World

Description of the Four Days:

Day One: Introductions and Understanding the Birth Sequence

• Overview presentation

• Skills: Getting a birth history: Working with the Layers of Experience

• Understanding Interventions

• Demo: Working with the stuck place, creating strength-based work

• Recording of a session with a woman

• Practice and Harvest

Day Two: The Impact of Interventions Part One

• Establishing a Felt Sense of Goodness: Demo and practice

• Restoring Intuition, just like in other trauma

• Slowing the Pace: Pausing and Allowing: Review of the Leading Edge

• Skills of ANS tracking

• Understanding Interventions: T Model and Birth Trauma, Inescapable Attack

• Demo and Practice

 Day Three: The Impact of Interventions Part Two

• Assault, Medical Trauma, Horror and Near Death

• Restoring defensive gestures

• Honoring the “no”

• Restoring after deep freeze

• Near death, touch strategies

• Vu and Push

• Recording, Demo and Practice

 Day Four: Earliest Trauma and Our Spiritual Essence

• Tracking Birth Trauma is Complex

• Story: The Baby Told Me

• Working with Babies

• Creating Messages of Repair and the Holding Healing Story

• Reparation for the Clinician

About Dr. Abi Blakeslee: Dr. Abi Blakeslee is faculty at the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute and Foundation for Human Enrichment.  She is additionally Dr. Peter Levine’s legacy faculty at Ergos Institute for Somatic Education. Dr. Blakeslee holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. 
 
About Kate White: Kate is an advanced bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and prenatal and perinatal trauma specialist with over 20 years’ experience. She offers training programs through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs and has a private practice.